Tag Archives: Screens

We’re back and answering Greg’s askMTJC on DuoTang portfolios. We follow up on alternatives to Back To My Mac, we have a date for the new iPhone & Watch announcements, new iPad renders, Tim Horton’s and Stanford’s Heart Study. Apple and developers suffered an CloudKit outage. Apple buys an AR glasses startup. New apps and updates will require a published privacy policy going forward. An iOS 12 alert is driving beta testers nuts. Picks: Carbon, 360|iDev, Apple IBM & SAP, Fan Expo Canada

This week we follow up on Greg’s Hashing talk at SLUG, Slack raised 4M in venture capital, Apple plans to release a low-cost MacBook and Pro Mac Mini and 2 spaces after a period. A teenage hacker grabs 90 GB of Apple’s files. Back To My Mac is not coming to macOS Mohave. Picks: Hug your old Mac with these retro pillows, Customizing the file header comment and other text macros in Xcode 9. After Show: Mastodon, Top iOS Dev Podcasts

Aaron and Greg dig deep into CloudKit and how Aaron used it in the creation of Magpie. They discuss the CKNotifications, sharing code between iOS and OS X, the use on FMDB to manage the data model, iOS 8 share extensions and target conditionals. We discuss Brent Simmons post on building apps with Love and a couple of follow up articles. We talk about becoming successful like Omni Group, AgileBits, Flexibits, Daniel Jalkut. What does success look like. How do you measure a senior developer. We talk about finding quality poutine, chocolate mousse and espresso. Picks: Screens, Apple RSVP and Background Backup.

About the Podcast

MTJC podcast is a show about mobile development. Each week, Jaime Lopez, Mark Rubin (sometimes Greg Heo, Tammy Coron, and Aaron Vegh) and myself, Tim Mitra, will convene from across the continent to discuss iOS and Mac development.